Method of putting up antiseptic bandages.



J. E. LEE; METHOD OF PUTTING UP ANTISEPTIG IBANDAGES.

Patented Nov. 24, 1908.

APPLICATION I'ILED JUNE 1, 1908. v

' 1 JNVENTOR fiz g ATTORNEYS ans A'rnn'r canton."

'JOHN ELLWOOD LEE, OF CONSHOHOCKEN, PENNSYLVKNIA, ASSIGNOR TO JOHNSON AND JOHNSON, OF NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

METHOD PUTTING ANTISEPTIC BANDAGES..

. To all whom it may concern:

Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented NOV-24, 190a,

' Application filed 3111191, 1908. Serial No. 485,944.

Be it known that I,.JoHN ELLWOOD LEE, a citizen of the United States of .America residing in Conshohocken, in the county 0 needed.

Montgomery, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Methods of Putting Up Antiseptic Bandages', of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of an improved method of putting up surgical bandage materialin rolls,'sothat the bandages shall be thoroughly antiseptic, and be well protected until opened for use, but that the package can be readily opened when the contents are In the'accompanying drawing: Figure 1 is a perspective View showing a preliminary stage in the wrapping of the bandage roll;

The

' of-the roll A.

Fig. 2 is a gerspective view showin a further stage; ig. 3 is a'longitudina section of a partially finished acka e; and Fig. 4.is' a similar view of a fi iiished wrapped ban-. dage roll;

bandage material is preferably wrapped up tightly in long rolls within a 1i ht paper wrap er, the overlapping'edge o wh1ch is seale by gum or 'aste. This roll is as long as the width '0 the Woven gauze or other web of material of which the bandage is to be wrap ed, but this long roll is then cut into the esired short lengths,

producing acylindrical roll A, Fig. 1-, in-

closed within a paper wrapper a with the contents exposed 1 at the ends. Each roll length .for the diameter of the roll' and of slightly greater width than the length J40.

of the roll. The wrap er is previously. formed .with grooves b, 8, near each edge at a distance a art equal -to the length um or paste or other ad hesive is applied to the edge a: where it'over-v laps the other edge. of the. wrap or B when ro led'up, so as to make a tight on 'tudinal joint in the rolled up wrapper. l liere are then inserted into the opposite ends of this rolled wrapperB, card board ,or thick paper disks 0 w richare plain, that is, flangeless,

and fin seats in the grooves b, b, and are thereby operatlon. This succeeding operation cons1sts in spinningdown'the projecting ends I) two subscribing witnesses.

retained in "place during the next of this wrapped roll B, Fig. 3, to turn them in to form. supporting shoulders bearing against the outer faces of the lain disks as shown in Fig. .4 to hold the dis s firmly in place. This operation obliterates-the grooves b. B the above described simple methodv I provi e what is found to be a practically hermetically sealed package of antlse tic banda e, which nevertheless can be rea ily opene when required to be used. 1

The turned-in ends of the'tubes are not locked to the disks, as is donewhen the disks have flanges, and there being no other shoulders in the outer wra per than those formed by the turned-in en s, the package can be easily opened by simply pressing on one of the disks with the thumb or other-means, and thereby pushing the bandage roll out of the other end of the ackage.

I claim as my invent on:

.1. The method herein described of making antiseptic bandage rolls, consisting in first T forming a length of bandage roll, wrapping this in a sheet of greater width than the length of the roll and sealing the longitudinal 'oint, inserting plain disks within the opposite ends" of'this wrapper and. then spinmng down thejends of: the wrapper against the outer faces of the disks. p

f2. Themethod herein described of making antiseptic bandage rolls, consisting in first forming a length of bandage roll, wrapping this in a sheet of greater width than the length of the roll,previously form ng grooves "in the sheet'near its, ed es at a distance apart equal to the length 0 the roll, sealing the longitudinal joint of the wrapper, insertlng disks within the grooves of the wrapper, and then spinning the endspver the disks and obliteratmg said grooves.

In testimony whereof I have signed my nametothis specification, in the presence of JOHN ELLWOOD LEE.

Witnesses! I M. ErWmcnr,

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